Enforce existing laws, reject I-594

Published 10:25 am Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Initiative 594 TV commercial featuring King and Kitsap County prosecutors Daniel Satterberg and Russell Hague demonstrates serious credibility issues for those county politicians.

They claim firearms are illegally purchased online with websites shown in the video.

If that is happening, those illegal acts will leave a readily traceable digital record. Rather than campaign for more laws, why do they not simply do their jobs enforcing current laws by prosecuting the violators?

If we cannot trust these elected officers of the court to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, who can we trust? When they are misleading us, what are their true motivations? What could they really be trying to accomplish?

This initiative is opposed by the majority of law enforcement in this state and well as the state GOP. It has 18 pages of regulations that go far beyond the stated intention. Taking valuable, scarce resources away from law enforcement to create needless regulation on law abiding citizens will not accomplish any meaningful results.

Urge the prosecutors and judges to enforce existing law. Reject Initiative 594 and support Initiative 591.

– Bob Zimmerman